The news in this publica
tion is released for the press on
the date indicated below.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
EWS LETTF.
FEBRUARY 17, 1915
Published weekly by the
Univcfsity of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Extension.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
VOL. I, NO. 13
KditorUl Board. E. C. Branson, J. G. deR. Hamiltoii, L. K. Wilson, Z. V. Judd, S, R. Winters. L. A. Willimns. Entered as second-class
matter November 14, 19H, at the postoJRoe at Ohapel Hill, N.C., under
the act of August 24, Itfia.
SCHOOL NEWS
I ping IS at present carried in Aineriean
vessels. Tlie high school boys and girls
; will th(jro\ighly t.hre.sih out the subsidy as
; a means of building up the marine.
The Good Roads Institute
February 23-27, at the rniversity of!
l^orth Carolina. - The Honor Roll
Distinguished ' speakers: Frof. V. M. ; Tlie University News letter is rejoicing
Htralian, University of Georgia, AV. W. j in the increasing length of the honor
tlrosljy, Highway Commissioner for Mary- roll of counties e^stablishing moonlight
'land, 1). II. Winslriw, Federal Otlice of; schools, for the elimination of adult ilHter-
1‘ublie Highways. Dr. .Toseph Hyde Pratt, “acy; so far 13 counties and 47 schools.
■State Geologist nf North Carolina. i Harnett county 10
Subjects: Top-soil and Sand-clay Koads, j Coknnbus county 10
■H i g h w a y >hiintenance. Bituniinrms j Beaufort county 10
Koads. JMa(‘alani Roads. Bridges and ; Fdgecimibe county 5
•©ulvert.s.
Invited: All road engineers, superin
tendents, commissioners, and all other
oftieials or citizens interested in improv-
■ed highway building and maintenance.
Ail Accounted'For: None Missing'
Twenty-one graduates of the UniverRity
Law School were examined Ix'fore the
Supreme (Viurt at Kaleigh last^week,
and twenty-one nf them receivt>d licenses
ill |)ractiee law in Nuth Carolina, it is
■*tie usual record. -
IF THE SOUTH FED ITSELF!
Seaman A. Knapp
These Southern states riglitfully
should be tlie richest in the land.
They have the greatest crop-producing
power. They control the clothing of
the woi-ld almost absolutely. We have
been raising cotton anil selling it and
buying everything I'lse. That practice
never made a people rich.
If we will iiroduce everything that
we consume, our own butter, cheese,
poultry, as «eli as horses, and
let our cfifton be a cash crop, we will
own the facforic's. wc will own the
banks, we will be a faciiu' in tlie pol
icy of the counrty. ami in the control
of tlie world.
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
LETTER SERIES NO. 15
of the children in thi.^
CAROLINA CLUB NOTES
Commercial Chibs and Rural Progress
Mr. E. Bransi'ii. head of the
department of Uural Fcondiuics and
|iresident of the North (Barulina (Uub at i
till' University, addressed The (ireater
Charlotte Cluli Friday night of last week
ni>on (ireater Charlotte and its Country
side Koundations,
On Satimlay morning he spuke to the
■iarniers, the School board members, the
• •schcKil conanitteeinen, and the teachers
■api.m Coiuitry-Life I’roblenis in Mc'ck-
■denburg.
.lohnstcm county ■ 4i
Lee county i |
Cherokee county i i
Tran.sy Ivania county 1 [
Sccitland county ij
Sampson county l |
Cabarrus county i|
\\’atauga county i
Richmond county l !
So far as we know Bentonville, .lohn-|
ston county,h;i.s the largest enrollment, 42 ;
Columbus lias the oldest ]>upil, a man 72 '
years c if age. |
The pupils oi the Old .Mill Sclio.n. j
Edgecoml)e county, have suggested gix ing i labor.
an cntertaimnent for tlu‘ benefit of their' ^Vith othei' interested, tine people, he
teacher—a very tangibU' form of apprecia-iottering the King's Daughters, the
Our City Schools | About one-half
The problems of the rural school teach-! are patronizing the lunch,
er and officers are so insistent that we I- A Mothers’ Club
sometimes forget the excellent work be- : a ^■lgorous Mothe,-s’ Club has been or-
mg done m otir ci y schools. Tlie oflicers ' the Orange Street School. W.
and teachers in these latter institutions, j. Barton, Principal, with an enrollment
ho»e^( r are working taithtully at their of about one hundred members. Their
tasks and report progressive movements. , lirst undertaking is ^to establLsh a lunch
In Asheville j counter in that section. They are now
Superintendent Harry Howell of Ashe- ! plans in that direction,
ville writes to the University .S-hool of ' Prizes Offered
Kducation the following interesting items ‘
about the work being done in the schools
, of that city.
School Gardens
^ We recently entertained Miss FUhel
' (xfiwaus of till' Federal Biuvaii of F'duca-
: tion, and accepted her plans for honit* gar-
Mr. J). 'i . Cooper, a wealthy tobacco , dening under-sehi.iol sujxM-vision. M'e are
hian and cotton nuinufactnrer, in \'ance '
Curing Adult Illiteracy
not believe in ignorant
tion.
The McNair Lectures
Dr. .lohn Dewey of (>)luinbia Univer
sity delivered the McNair lectures at the
Univei'sity of North C’arolina, upon Fri-
day, Saturday, and Sunday of ia.st week.
Snbject.s: The Inner and Outer WorUis,
"the State and the floral Life, ani the
Philosophy of History. Here are greatstars Marcli 12.
Extension Lectures
The University professors under the
auspices of the Bureau of Extension de
liver lectures anywhere in North Caro
lina. The oniy charge attached to the
lectures is for the payment of the travel
ing expenses of the speakers.
At High Point this Spring lectures will
be given in this order by University pro
fessors :
E. C. Branson, Come, Let Us Live
with Our Children, Feb. 19.
(i. 31. McKie, Recitals from Modern
Humorists, Feb. 25.
L. A. Williams. .lames AVhitcomb
Hi ley,, March 5.
A. H. I’atterson, The Storv of the
subjects and they were ably
-a great thinker.
iliscnssed bv
The Land of Opportunity
Mr. Biou H. Butler of Southern Pines
■-addressed tlie North Carolina Club at
the University last Wednesday night;
The Laud of Opportunity for the yotmg,
■inian of to-ilay is North Carolina, said he.
His theme was the boundless resources
■■of our state, their inspirhig possibilities,
■and the manifold o])portnnities they offer
;for cirreers of Achievement and service.
Mr. Butler is a Pennsylvanian who
*or the last ten years has livel in Xorth
• i
'tlarolina. But he knows the state as
most of ns don’t know it and as all of us
Wight to know it. His buoyant optimi.sin
is contagious.
His inspiring address bred in his audi
ence a new faith in their- Mother State,
ill thcmsehes, in the Xortli t'arolina
J^hib and its mission.
When he comes a,‘taiii to th(‘University,
jSe will have even a greater welcome.
These lectures will be gi\en under the
auspices of the High Point Women’s
Club, and will be open to the general
public.
Other communities in which lectures
will soon be given under somewhat the
same plan are: Burlington, Charlotte,
.lamestown, Ashcboro, fiandlemaii,
Ahoskie, Statesville, Salisbury. Red
Springs, Spencer, ^febane. and Mann-
dale. ■ —
t'ivic Jjcague, and the Sunday Schools a
dollar apiece for every adult white illiter
ate ni and around Henderson taughi to
read-and write.
The' [’niversity News Letter will be
glad to report the results of this cam
paign and others of similar sort elsew here.
Learning About North Carolina
The editoi’s of the Universitv News
Letter are reading a hundred and ten
North Carolina lu-wsjiaper exchanges
every week.
It may be important for the [leople of
North Carolina to know about their
I niversity. But it is also important for
tlie University to know about the people
of North Carolina, a.s they hope and
and dream, struggle forward ami achieve
day by day.
.\jid so we read our exchanges. How
else could we kno«- aboiit the North
Carolina that is and is to be?
j arranging to a])point one teacher in each
of fiur elementary schools to tak(> charge
of the work for the children in the I'iftli,
Sixth, and Seventh (iradt's and sup('rvi.se
it from the plantingtime throughout the
sunmier.
School Lunches
The Park .Vvenue School, under .Miss
M. Ca rson, I’rincipal. is 0[)('rating,
very successfully, a p(‘nny hmch. She
s(*rves one dish a day, either of .soiip or
ol beans, or a cereal or cocoa, and sells
each portion for a cent. Each day she dis-
t]-ibutes about 50 free hmch tickets. This
lunch is serveil at 10:30 so as to provide
needei.l nourisbnient for those jitipils who
do not secure proper food for breakfast.
The Civic Im|)roveiuent League of Ashe
ville is ottering a ca.sh prize of $25 to that
school of Aslu'ville presenting the best
plan for thi' beautilication of school |irem-
ises.
A Special Supervisor
i Beginning with February lirst, Mrs.
! . A. New(“ll liecomes the Supervisor of
: Kindi'rgarten and ; Primary (trades, In
I addition to her cla.ss-roont visitations she
will meet the kindergarten and primary
teachers each once a week for lectures
and liiscu.ssions,
Sewing in the Grades
Beginning February first,; .sewing will
lie taught to the girls in all' grades below
the Seventh. It is already taught in all
grades of th‘ High School.
Teacher Study Circle
The basal t(«t for flu' w inter teachers’
meetings is Mc.Murry’s Elenientary
School Standards. The ])lan is to criti
cize our own t(‘achingan(l cour.se of study
in the light of tlieseStandards.
CAROLINA CLUB STUDIES
A Useful Bulletin
TEx'tension Bulletin No. 2 of tlie Uni-
'versity is entitlel “Addre.sses on Kduca
tion for use in Declaiming, Kssay Writ
ing, and I’eading,” It contains inaterial
especially suitable for boys and girls who
^.ire intt'rested in declamations and essays.
It contains extracts from addresses by
v=iducational leadersof the last few decades:
Joyner, Alderman, Battle, ^Iclver. Clax-
1:011, Noble, and many others.
fliii a nuniber of counties this bulletin
■is henig used as a source of selections for
tlie Declamation Contests at the - ap-
■ proaching County Comniencements^
A postal addresac'd to the. Bureau of
'Exb'nsion will bring this bulletin to you.
"The Big High School Debate.
:.Should the United States ado]>t the
’{polii'y of siilisidizing its nK'rchant marine
engag('d in foreign trade?
This (luestion will be debated on
'March 26th in 250 eommnnities of the
'State, by the 250 schools that have en
rolled in the High School Debating
'■^tTnioii, Each school has been placed with
,^wo others for a triangular d&bate.
- The schools winning both of their
xlebates wi!l send their debaters to the
^Tni^'crsity on Ajiril 9th, to take ]>art in
the final contest for the ..Aycock "Mtnno-
i^ial Cup.
|'^)nly S.9 per cent of American ship-
Southern Exchange Foundation
During the present year, the lecture
coinniittee of the University of North
Carolina has organized a system of ex
change lectureships between certain rep-
rest;ntative Southern Universities. These
lectureships have for tlieir primary pur-
I pose the promotion of productive thouglit
j and scholarship. The four institutions
: represented are \'anderbilt, South Caro-
I lina, Mrginia, and North Carolina.
i>r. Fdwin .Mims of \’anderbiU will
lecture, at the University of Virginia,
President Currell of :^onth Carolina at
^'ftnd(|rbilt, Professor \\'. M. Thornton of
^'irginia at the University of North Caro
lina, and Professor F. P. V'enable of
North Carolina at the’ University of
South Carolina.
During the present week, ex-president
N'enable, former President of the Ameri
can Chemical Society, will lecture at the
University, of South CaroUna. His lec
tures, concernt'd with modern develop
ments in chemical science and research,
will be addressed primarily to the classes
in chemistry. During his stay in Colum
bia, he will also speak before the faculty
and student bodv.
Keep in the Lead
The McRae-Brummitt bills before the
legislature covering Credit T'nions, Co
operative Enterprise, and'I.and and Loan
•Vssociations are a great improvement
upon the Texas bills of 1913; so much
better that they put North Carolina far
in the lead in this new field of American
legislation.
The Tennessee Legislature is now con
sidering similar bills, so (ntA'ernor Rye
w rites the University News Letter.
-\Ve ought to k(>e]i well ahead of Tenne-
see and all other stales in holding out a
helping liand to the farmers.
THE 1914 INCOME TAX
(fross incomes in Xorth Carolina, beyond twelve hundred and fifty dollars, from.'
salaries, fees, trades, and un-taxed property are taxed from one to two and a half
per cent, according to the amount of the excass.
The total revenue from this tax in 1914 was $52,710.41.
This total was iiail by 67 counties, iii amounts ranging from $1.50 in Alleghany
to $6,301.40 in ^lecklenburg county.
In thirty-three counties,, nibody had a gro.ss income of more than }il250; at
least no income tax was paid into the State treasury froni these counties.
INCOME TAX PAID UNDER THE NORTH CAROLINA LAW
Heiiort State Tax Commissioner, 1914
K. S. BOOTH, Durham County Club
Homespun Studies
Among other homespun studies, the
North (Jarolina Club is studying the Crop
Lien in North Carolina, and its related
subjects (1) Densities of Negro Popula
tion, (2) Increasing Negro Farm Ow^ner-
ship, (3) Farm Tenancy, white and
black, (4) Single Cash-Crop systems,
and (5) the Thne-Credit Business of the
Supply-mei'C bants,
Hei-e are l)ig subjects—big with signitl-
cance, our country civilization consider-
ed. They call for accurate knowledge,
complete mastery, and wise remedies,
economic, social and civic.
Brief notes of these Crop Lien studies
will get into the University News I^etter
from time t-o time.
Georgia Gains Eighty-Four Millions
Under her new tax law, the 1913-14 in-
crea.se of taxable W('alth in (.icorgia was
eighty-four millimi dollars.
Her ?;tat(' tax raf' has been lowered
from f5.00 [o 14.50 per thousand dollars
worth of property. Barring one year only,
it is the lowest rate in Georgia in the last
twenty-tt\e years.
The cost of ojierating the new law was
less than 3'5,000. (ieorgia’s plan is more
property on th(> tax books ami a lower
rate. And it works.
Chesty
Our county is still in it in spite of haixi
times, saj’s one of imr country exchanges.
The banks of our county liad on deposit
•Ian, 1, 1915, over $5lX).000, it goes on to
say.
But the year before, all the money in
the county in and outside the banks
amounted to only $203,655; or about
15.50 apiece counting men, women, and
children.
(~)r that was all the folks could remem
ber when the sheriff came around col
lecting taxes. It is the same old story
everywhere.
AA’e come into the world kicking and
pass through life dodging—dodging some
things some of the tune, and other things
all the time, taxes say.
“W'c are all kickers by nature, and tax
dodgers by nurture; at least, until people
rise into the idea that taxes equably levied
and wisely expended are a necessary in
vestment in public progress.
Rank County
Amt. liicomc Tax
Rank County
Amt. Income Tax
1.
;\Iecklenburg ..
!f6',301.40
35.
Union
?
36
3.
4
A\'ake
4,769.02
37.
3-'^.
39.
Randolph
5.
(Tuilford
4,236.81
Warren
■ 6.
Durham
4,143.35
40.
•\nsoii
7.
Buncombe. . . .
3,249.68
41
Wilkes
8.
Cabarrus
1,802.87
42.
Lee •. .
9.
Vance
1,168.75
43.
Stanly
10.
Xasb
1,096.91
44.
1larnett
11.
Rockingham....
1,077.85,
45.
Duplin
97.46
1’
1,024 39
46
13.
Halifax
47.
Caklwell
14.
Wilsfni
913,67 '
4M.
Lincoln
81.00
1 s
867.70
49
Swain
77 00
16.
Cra\-en
.......... 814.69
50.
17
762.33
51
I lenderson ....
62 00
18.
Edgecombe ■ ■ ■ .
637.33
52.
Transylvania . .
56.75
19.
Richmond ....
517.50
53.
•Martin
20.
Pasi|uotank. . ..
508.75
54.
Davie ...
52.00
21.
97
Pitt
421 oO
55
. . . .: 407.05
5ft,
Person
45 00
23.
Orange
406.40
57.
McDowell
24.
Iredell
380.81 1
58.
Brunswick ....
25.63
25.
Cat.il wba
380.23
59.
X'orthampton, .
25.50
26.
Rutherford ....
372.69
59.
Paiidico .......
27.
Lenoir
368.85 ■
61.
Chatham
25.00
28.
Granville
360.50
61.
Haywood
29.
.-Uamance
359.78.
63.
.h)nes
30.
Chowan
355.20'
64.
Washington. ..
17.00
^1
343 48
64
Hertford
32.
Robeson
309.25 j
66.
.\she
2.50
33.
Davidson
286.10i
67.
-Mleghany. . . .
1.50
34.
Moore
Thirty-Three Counties that Paid No Income Tax in 1914
Alexander, Avery, Bertie, Bladen. Burke, Camden, Carteret, t’aswell. Clay,
Cleveland, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Franklin, (iates, Graham, Greene, Hoke,
Hyde, .Jackson, Macon, iSlarhson, :\Iitchell, Onslow, IVnder, Polk, Sampson,’Stokes!
Surry, Tyrrell, Watauga. Yadkhi, Yancey.
Federal Aid to Good Roads
Write your Congressman for Senator
Bourne’s newly published report on
Federal Aid to Good Roads.
It is an accurate, full, up-to-date ac
count of the whole subject of impro\'ed
liighway building.
A State Highway Commision
.Some forty states have State Higliway
Commissions. But, so far, Xorth Caro
lina is not in this list.
If the bill on this subject now before
the legislature can muster a majority
vote, the State will take a great step for
ward.